Cummings named as Heart Ball chairs

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — Wendy and Dr. Scott Cummings will chair the American Heart Association’s Hilton Head Heart Ball 2012 Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Westin Hilton Head Island Resort and Spa.

Cummings is an internal medicine physician at Palmetto Medical Group.

The “Black and White”-themed event will host more than 350 leaders from the Lowcountry’s medical, business and social communities to raise funds to reduce disability and death from the nation’s No. 1 killer — cardiovascular disease.

Deas Guys will perform along with Don Hite on the piano during Grey Goose’s hosted martini lounge during cocktail hour.

Tickets are $200 per person and tables of eight are $2,750, other sponsorships range from $1,750 to $25,000. For sponsorship, tickets or to make a contribution, call Judy Caramello at the American Heart Association at 422-4542 or email Judy.T.Caramello@heart.org